Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Sepia Saturday 136 : 28 July 2012

Sepia Saturday 136 (post your posts on or around Saturday 28th July 2012) will coincide with the first full day of the 2012 London Olympics.We are all about to be buried under an avalanche of sport; drowned in a tsunami of bulging muscles, pounding trainers and in-flight javelins. Two sports you won't see featured at the Olympic Games are those trans-Atlantic rivals, cricket and baseball. Here on Sepia Saturday we don't want them to feel left out and therefore we will spotlight them here. The illustration comes from the A G Spalding Baseball Collection which forms part of the Flickr Commons collection of the New York Public Library. So off you go : sport, bats and balls, trans-Atlantic rivalry : you can throw the theme wherever you want to and, as always, you can hit it right out of the stadium if you want to. Post your post, link your link, and don't forget : try to take a trip around the rest of the bases.

Looking forward, things continue to be seasonally sporting here on Sepia Saturday for the next couple of weeks. Here's a quick preview.

So get ready for the greatest festival of old sporting photographs ever seen on Sepia Saturday. You have just seen the opening ceremony - let the games begin.

Two cricket posts from me this week, not stumps - though you can learn how the wicket in the early game did in fact only have two. The first is a celebration of ‘boys with bats’ and the second contains a treat in the form of a link, for real cricket history fans,

Oh BoY!!I forgot to link my post to SS last night, so taken I was by the opening ceremonies, and this morning, even before my first coffee, I've finally linked on the Fairy post, and then, here. Alan, can you remove entry #34 on the Fairy linky hing-y? Thanx!! And by the way, if some of you in the UK grind their teeth at the cost of the London's Games, if it helps, a big thank you from my part, as I think it was off to a great start. Remember, it took us Montrealers 30 years to pay the bill in full, plus interests, of course!!Now, I'll get my coffee.:)~ HUGZ

Greetings, and how is it in your world today? Sporting I just know! :) I am enjoying many bloggers photos from all the festive happenings in England as present. BUT! My Sepia moments today wanted to go to another dreamy location for me! I hope you enjoy my post!

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.